TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 july 16

1 M J Hibbett And The Validators : Do The Indie Kid
2 Walking Floors : No Next Time
3 Tender Trap : Do You Want A Boyfriend?
4 Tunnelrunners : Plastic Land
5 Math And Physics Club : Jimmy Had A Polaroid
6 Really 3rds : Everyday Everyway
7 Liechtenstein : This Must Be Heaven
8 Tunnelrunners : Forever Crying At Love
9 Bubblegum Lemonade : Caroline's Radio
10 Felt Tips : Lifeskills
11 Dubious Brothers : South America Welcomes The Nazis
12 Plastics : Robot
13 Plastics : Copy
14 Single Factor : Fresh On Her Lips
15 Faraway Stars : Jealous
16 Ethnobabes : Television Song
17 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
18 Escorts : Bingo
19 Rogers Sisters : Les Fantaisies Sont Bien
20 Velocette : Get Yourself Together

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY-----The unloved

Two singles here that failed to seduce punters.
First an effort by Apes In Control. This has generated minor interest in the past but this time out bidders stayed away.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350265196327&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Next a fascinating, if flawed, attempt at being experimental in an extremely tentative way, by long forgotten galactic travellers Faraway Stars. I put this on the blog many months back to a fairly indifferent response. Even less response on ebay. No takers at the low starting bid of 99p.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120480018816&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

FROM A DISTANT GALAXY

Discovered in MVE a few months back this odd little effort from the Faraway Stars fell from the skies in 1981 on Robo records. The group was made up of Rose Saddler on bass and backing vocals, Pete Giles on synthesizers, Fran Ashcroft on vocals and guitars and Mick Pearl on drums.

The A side sounds as if it erupted from a bad teen movie cash-in celebrating the waywardness of early eighties youth. Production is pinned down to a minimum as befits a record that comes in a thin paper sleeve. Remember that Joy Division look? Brooding around on bridges and in underpasses suits some but is undermined here by the bicycle. Let's hope they stole it and they ride without clips.

Their genius remained inconspicuous and they vanished, possibly to roam around the planets.

I think the B side the better of the two tracks. It's no classic but it's mildly engaging though one might expect a little more threat from a song called Sex And Violence. Listen for yourselves.

sex and violence.mp3 - faraway stars